Words that rhyme with throbber

n 1: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn: are, ar]

n 1: the basic unit of money in Ethiopia; equal to 100 cents 2: sound of something in rapid motion; "whir of a bird's wings"; "the whir of the propellers" [syn: whir, whirr, whirring, birr] v 1: make a soft swishing sound; "the motor whirred"; "the car engine purred" [syn: whizz, whiz, whirr, whir, birr, purr]

n 1: a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line [syn: bob, bobber, cork, bobfloat]

n 1: seed vessel having hooks or prickles [syn: bur, burr] 2: small bit used in dentistry or surgery [syn: bur, burr] v 1: remove the burrs from [syn: bur, burr]

n 1: seed vessel having hooks or prickles [syn: bur, burr] 2: rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting 3: United States politician who served as vice president under Jefferson; he mortally wounded his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel and fled south (1756-1836) [syn: Burr, Aaron Burr] 4: rotary file for smoothing rough edges left on a workpiece 5: small bit used in dentistry or surgery [syn: bur, burr] v 1: remove the burrs from [syn: bur, burr]

n 1: informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all your clobber?" [syn: stuff, clobber] v 1: strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her" [syn: clobber, baste, batter] 2: beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" [syn: cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick]

n 1: an unskilled painter

n 1: someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers [syn: jobber, middleman, wholesaler]

adj 1: shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen" [syn: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick]

n 1: a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence

n 1: an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle 2: a performer or composer or fan of rock music [syn: rocker, rock 'n' roll musician] 3: a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles 4: a chair mounted on rockers [syn: rocking chair, rocker] 5: a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold [syn: rocker, cradle] 6: an ice skate with a curved blade 7: a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro

n 1: a shockingly bad person 2: a sensational message (in a film or play or novel)

n 1: someone who visits stores in search of articles to buy 2: a commercial agent who shops at the competitor's store in order to compare their prices and merchandise with those of the store that employs her

n 1: saliva spilling from the mouth [syn: drool, dribble, drivel, slobber] v 1: let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled" [syn: drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber, dribble]

n 1: a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal [syn: soccer, association football]

n 1: an alloy (usually of lead and tin) used when melted to join two metal surfaces v 1: join or fuse with solder; "solder these two pipes together"

n 1: a worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove spots 2: a worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers) 3: a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event [syn: lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket] 4: someone who is the first to observe something [syn: finder, discoverer, spotter]

n 1: someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it [syn: squatter, homesteader, nester] 2: someone who settles on land without right or title

n 1: a domestic animal (especially a young steer or heifer) kept as stock until fattened or matured and suitable for a breeding establishment

n 1: an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down [syn: show- stopper, showstopper, stopper] 2: a remark to which there is no polite conversational reply [syn: conversation stopper, stopper] 3: (bridge) a playing card with a value sufficiently high to insure taking a trick in a particular suit; "if my partner has a spade stopper I can bid no trump" 4: blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly [syn: plug, stopper, stopple] v 1: close or secure with or as if with a stopper; "She stoppered the wine bottle"; "The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers" [syn: stopper, stopple]

n 1: an imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children